Baldur's Gate & Baldur's Gate II Mod Thread

[Delterius]

That's weird, I remember BG2 scaling encounters but not BG1. And I also recently cleaned the Gnoll Fortress and there were many more gnolls than merely 5.

kobolds chillaxing with their skeleton bros and they attack you (there is now some kobold and skeleton alliance or something)?

Sure about Kobolds? There were gnolls and skeletons mixed in the Thalantyr area.

 

[darkling]

What level were you when you went there? I was with level 1 party. Perhaps they are scaled TOO low there?

Level 2! That must be scaling gone wrong.

 

[Jaesun]

For me there were Kobolds and Skeletons together at the Firewine ruins with TuTu Spawns.

 

[Jaesun]

What level were you when you went there? I was with level 1 party. Perhaps they are scaled TOO low there?

Level 2! That must be scaling gone wrong.

OK weird. Perhaps they are scaled just a tad too low.

 

[~RAGING BONER~]

yeah BGT...i have been noticing like 1 gibberling instead of the usual swarms in random wilderness areas, less enemies in general. I boosted my XP (and thus char level) to 89000 to see if tougher and more numerous critters would spawn like in BG2 but nope, same shit <_<


considering I have SCS and SCS2 (with all the improved AI and tactical encounters) i might just have to leave my XP at 89000 just to break even with the 161000 BGTotSC xp mark or otherwise the now OP wizards and assassins out to kill me would utterly destroy an xp and gold starved legit character.

 

[octavius]

TuTu may have too large and too dangerous spawns, but as an experienced player I much prefer that to too small and pathetic spawns. IIRC TuTu also comes with an option to radnomize the spawns more.

EDIT: now that I think about it, I seem to recall there being trouble with using the BG2 spawn system in BG1, and the developers were never totally satisfied with the end result.

 

[Krivol]

I found playing solo makes respawn broken: only pathetic number of foes (IIRC never more than 3-4 mobs) - and low level single hero must face only one gibbering, gnoll, dragon etc.

 

[Delterius]

For me there were Kobolds and Skeletons together at the Firewine ruins with TuTu Spawns.

That dungeon left me scarred so I rarely, if ever, go there.

 

[GarfunkeL]

There's a BGT-Spawn mod that allows you to customize the spawns further. With that, I've been satisfied - plenty of Gnolls in Gnoll stronghold, an army of goblins guarding Firewine Bridge and so on. No weird alliances, except for the canines and that's acceptable to me.

 

[Turjan]

The wands of monster summoning have no actual limitations, you can summon an ARMY of monsters to your command, and this is how every single dude who played BG1 defeated Drizzt, by drowning him in a wall of monsters while the party hit him with their bows.

Eh, no, that's not how everyone did it. You don't need a wand of monster summoning for this. I used a potion of invisibility when I first thought about how to do it, and no, you cannot fight while invisible because of such a potion.

Because BG is one of the most primitive game I have ever played as far as the mechanics of the basic classes like fighters can be. Fighters don't actually have any ability, skill, anything other than "click it, kill it".

I guess you cannot into RPGs.

 

[GarfunkeL]

Gibberlings3 seems to be down at the moment - just when I was thinking of doing a new Big World Setup installation. Great timing.

 

[hrose]

From an old thread:

BGT spawns

• spawns have fixed strength
• many spawns mix creature types
• repopulated after 1 day

tutu spawns

• spawns have strength based on party size and levels
• spawns are of single creature type
• repopulated after 1 day

easytutu spawns

• same as tutu
• same as tutu
• Allows to set a % of the spawn points to be randomly picked and disabled. Allows to set time in days until the spawn points get repopulated or disable respawning altogether.

So if you want non-leveled spawns you want BGT style. The downside is that the mixing of creatures sometimes spawns stuff that don't really fits together.

Vanilla BG1 = closer to tutu (single creature type and scaled).

 

[GarfunkeL]

G3 is still dead and their emergency mirror isn't up-to-date. Does anyone have the following files or knows where they could be found?

item_rev.rar
kivan-v13.exe
bg2_tweaks-v10.exe
spell_rev-v3.1.exe
gavin_tob-20111125.exe
level1npcs-v1.9.exe
garrick_flirt-a0917.exe
scsII-v21.exe
bg2fixpack-v9.exe
crossmodbg2-v14.exe
tyrisflare-v6.exe
scs-v21.exe
randomiser-v68.exe
RE_v6.exe

Cheers

 

[Shiki]

garrick_flirt-a0917.exe

Really ? And you expect anyone to have that ?

 

[GarfunkeL]

Yes, indeed, I expect someone to have it. Several people, probably.

 

[MetalCraze]

BGT is shit. I tried playing BG1 with it once. It fucks up the balance bad and is buggy as fuck. Actually I didn't manage to complete BG1 because BGT broke some scripts and made 1 area impossible to complete.
Obviously savegames were already corrupt when I got there.

Fuck that shit. Just play BG1 with widescreen mod. Then import your char into BG2 if you absolutely want that shit (iirc it was possible)



Playing BG2 with widescreen, fixpack and 2 or 3 unfinished business restorations (incl. the Crane Inn). Installed at random. So far so good except there was no kobold shaman in teh sewers and I had to cheat-add shaman's staff.

Also used LVL1 NPCs mod to make Nalia a Thief instead of shitty Thief/Mage combo that is worse than Imoen.
The game needs a proper thief that doesn't die mid-game due to plot arghhh

 

[Jaesun]

BGT is shit. I tried playing BG1 with it once. It fucks up the balance bad and is buggy as fuck. Actually I didn't manage to complete BG1 because BGT broke some scripts and made 1 area impossible to complete.

How many years ago did you try it though? It's pretty stable now at least for me. But I do agree BG > BGT. However if you listed the pro's and con's of both, BGT would win out. And that fucking fucking fucking horrible shit pathfinding in BG is just fucking rage inducing. It is marginally better in the BG II engine.

 

[GarfunkeL]

Skyway, Skyway never changes. :D

 

[octavius]

Gibberlings3 seems to be down at the moment.

Not only down, but suspended by the host.

But I do agree BG > BGT.

Sword Coast Strategems requires TuTu or BGT. No matter how much TuTu or BGT may ruin pure vanilla BG1, it is insignificant compared to how much SCS improves the game.

 

[Comte]

Ugh Gibberlings 3 is down and I need the Icewind Dale Fix Pack version 5. Version 4 has a bug that made the Revenants in the crypt in trial of the Luremaster invincible It's apparently fixed in 5.

 

[zeitgeist]

G3 is still dead and their emergency mirror isn't up-to-date. Does anyone have the following files or knows where they could be found?
Cheers

I did a full install with everything ever recently, here you go, hope I didn't miss anything.

 

[Jaesun]

Sword Coast Strategems requires TuTu or BGT. No matter how much TuTu or BGT may ruin pure vanilla BG1, it is insignificant compared to how much SCS improves the game.

Agreed. That is the single best PRO of BGT. If skyway actually tried that he would change his mind.

 

[Jaesun]

What exactly does the BiG World mod do?

 

[octavius]

What exactly does the BiG World mod do?

It gives you a cheese overdose.

 

[Lancehead]

I did a full install with everything ever recently, here you go, hope I didn't miss anything.

I would brofist you if I could.